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The Tavern keeps the cabin fever going with fresh bites and cocktails

The Tavern keeps the cabin fever going with fresh bites and cocktails

PROOF that a log cabin is not just for Christmas. It only seems like yesterday the timber-centric Tavern in Spinningfields featured in our Places to be Merry festive round-up. Now it’s gearing up for spring ...

20 February 2020

Why we’re all getting horny about cheese this winter. Especially Six By Nico

Why we’re all getting horny about cheese this winter. Especially Six By Nico

IS there no end to the cheesiness of contemporary Manchester? At the cheese connoisseurs’ end of the market we’ve got leading UK expert Ned Palmer hosting a tasting at New Market Dairy, Altrincham, on Friday, ...

19 February 2020

Runyon’s at the new Hotel Brooklyn – worth making a song and dance about?

Runyon’s at the new Hotel Brooklyn – worth making a song and dance about?

HOW odd to discover Hotel Brooklyn’s digital assistant combines my name with the Guys and Dolls character Nicely Nicely Johnson. The one who who rattled out: ‘Sit down you’re rocking the boat’, the one who ...

19 February 2020 by Neil Sowerby

Fresh canolo quest as William Sicilian Street Food takes over La Boca

Fresh canolo quest as William Sicilian Street Food takes over La Boca

IN a recent review of the new Northern Quarter Salvi’s, while relishing their cannoli, we had to declare the best we’d ever eaten had been in Sicily. That was at Il Consiglio di Sicilia in ...

19 February 2020 by Neil Sowerby

Mr Cooper’s relaunches as Mount Street Dining Room & Bar

Mr Cooper’s relaunches as Mount Street Dining Room & Bar

THE restaurant formerly known as Mr Cooper’s House & Garden at The Midland Hotel will relaunch this April with a new name, look (cgi image above) and offering – Mount Street Dining Room & Bar. ...

19 February 2020 by Neil Sowerby

Cheese guru Ned hosts a tasting at Altrincham’s New Market Dairy

Cheese guru Ned hosts a tasting at Altrincham’s New Market Dairy

AMONG some culinary big hitters recommended in our pre-Christmas Cookbook faves of the year a delicious historical account of native cheeses stood out. Now Ned Palmer, author of ‘A Cheesemongers History to the British Isles’, ...

18 February 2020 by Neil Sowerby

Book now for special Albert Adrià dinner at Tast Catala

Book now for special Albert Adrià dinner at Tast Catala

IN a major coup for Tast Catala their own multi-starred exec chef Paco Perez will be hosting An Evening With Albert Adrià on Wednesday, March 18. Big brother Ferran Adrià, mastermind of molecular gastronomy, may ...

14 February 2020

MANA’S SIMON MARTIN HEADS A STARRY CHEF LINE-UP AT NRB

MANA’S SIMON MARTIN HEADS A STARRY CHEF LINE-UP AT NRB

SIMON Martin from Mana, Manchester’s first Michelin starred chef in a generation, leads the bill of top chefs demonstrating at the 20th edition of Northern Restaurant & Bar at Manchester Central March 17-18. One of ...

14 February 2020 by Neil Sowerby

This is what the new Bundobust and its inaugural brewery will look like

This is what the new Bundobust and its inaugural brewery will look like

WHAT is it with Bundobust and atriums? You think they’d be happy with that steepling window ceiling view at their first Manchester home in a basement off Piccadilly – blending Indian veggie food with the ...

14 February 2020 by Neil Sowerby

Bistrotheque duo bow out of the Cultureplex complex they did so much to create

Bistrotheque duo bow out of the Cultureplex complex they did so much to create

HARD nosed decisions happen in hospitality and Bistrotheque is the latest casualty in a competitive market. Native Hotels, whose 166 apartments occupy the bulk of the Ducie Street Warehouse complex, have now taken control of ...

13 February 2020

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